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It is difficult to win in Edmonton. Just ask the Oilers. The Saskatchewan Roughriders will concur after absorbing an utterly predictable, barely watchable 30-5 loss to the host Edmonton Eskimos in Friday’s attempt at a CFL game.

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The Saskatchewan Roughriders are owners of a six-pack of which they aren’t proud. A 30-5 loss to the Edmonton Eskimos on Friday at Commonwealth Stadium dropped Saskatchewan’s record to 0-6-0 — the first time since 1979 that the Roughriders have lost their first six games of a CFL season.

Jaeden Marwick has put a lung injury out of his head. The Regina Thunder quarterback suffered a punctured lung in the PFC team’s sixth game of the 2014 regular season, a 20-13 loss to the visiting Calgary Colts on Sept. 28. He didn’t play again down the stretch.

Jordan Schulz’s long drives aren’t always directed toward the fences. Schulz, a member of the Western Major Baseball League’s Regina Red Sox, routinely makes the commute to the Queen City from his hometown of Strasbourg. The trek is roughly one hour in each direction.

Optimism among Saskatchewan small business owners rose slightly from June to July, but still remains below the national average, according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB). The CFIB’s latest monthly ‘business barometer’ rose slightly to an index level of 54.5 in July from 53.6 in June, but is still below the national average index of 58.2.

Industry Canada has approved the licence transfer of two blocks of unused wireless spectrum from Wind Mobile to SaskTel, the Regina-based Crown corporation announced Friday. The transfer of the six licences will allow SaskTel to significantly increase the capacity and speed of its fourth generation, long-term evolution (4G LTE) wireless network in the nine major urban centres in Saskatchewan, the corporation said in a news release.

The federal government has closed the book on what was once called the Canadian Wheat Board. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said Friday Ottawa has finalized the sale of the agency that marketed grain for western Canadian farmers since 1935 to G3 Global Grain Group, which is a joint venture of Bunge Canada and SALIC Canada Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC).

With a federal election call likely to come this weekend, the silly season is now officially over. Summer is known in the journalism racket as the silly season, filled with fluffy stories about what’s good to eat at the fair, miraculous pet survival stories, pictures of giant misshapen vegetables from local gardens, and cross-country fundraising treks on bicycles, skateboards, rollerblades, etc.

The provincial government is looking for a company to keep an eye on its public-private partnership (P3) projects. It has two tenders out to find independent certifiers for the nine new joint-use schools across the province and the Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford — Integrated Correctional Facility project.

Jesse Pentz didn’t have to look very far for inspiration when he decided to pursue a career as a Regina Police Service officer. “Dad had a big part of it, kind of grew up around the career and he seemed very satisfied with his career,” said Pentz, 26, one of seven new recruits at Friday’s swearing in ceremony at RPS headquarters.

A car traveling southbound on Highway 6, about 20 kilometres north of Regina, crossed the centre line and nearly collided with a southbound-traveling SUV towing a camper around 11:15 a.m. Friday. The SUV veered out of the way and rolled, along with the camper, into the adjacent ditch.

As rumours swirl that the Conservative Party might call an election this weekend, the federal government coughed up more money for Regina projects on Friday. Tory MP Tom Lukiwski announced $617,600 in new funding, nearly evenly split between renovations to the North West Leisure Centre pool, the Saskatchewan Science Centre and the Wascana Centre Authority.

Regina Police Service is asking for the public’s help in locating a 10-year-old girl who was last seen Thursday. Leslie Scott Stevenson was last seen on the 1400 block of Elphinstone Street at 2 p.m. Thursday.